The last sentence of a paragraph can on occasion be used effectively to say something witty, ironic, or even contradictory.
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The last sentence of a paragraph can on occasion be used effectively to say something witty, ironic, or even contradictory.
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Each sentence in a paragraph will be understood not by itself, but only in the context made for it by the sentence before it.
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For readers, a paragraph is not experienced as a series of separate sentences. Each sentence must flow into the next.
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Paragraphs have significant beginnings, middles, and ends, but no single, set structure that must be constantly reproduced.
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The 5-sentence paragraph taught in school — topic sentence, body, conclusion — rarely exists in professional prose. Forget it.
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Whenever an "and" connects two main clauses, it fails to tell a reader how to connect those clauses. Best avoid this structure.
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The information in a mere phrase is considered by readers to be less important than the information in a dependent clause.
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The information in a dependent clause is considered by the readers to be less important than the information in the main clause.
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The number of words in a sentence, taken by itself, is no indication of the sentence's quality.
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Most of us are pretty good at spotting problems with grammar, word choice, sentence structure, etc., right? These small-scale “errors” are abundant in an early draft of anything, and it’s easy (if time-consuming) to mark them, and maybe correct them. 1/
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A main clause that ends with no colon, semi-colon, or period causes serious trouble for a reader, who must guess what to stress.
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Place the words you want your reader to stress in a Stress position — just before a colon, semi-colon, or period.
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Linguists definition of "Stress position": A Stress position is any moment of full syntactic closure.
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A sentence must connect backward and forward to its neighbors as smoothly as a fine sentence flows from its start to its end.
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State as early as possible in a sentence the words that logically connect this sentence back to the one that preceded it.
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The passive is not only OK; it is better than the active in all situations in which the passive does a better job than the active.
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